Mangal Gram
Mangal Gram is based on following concepts
- A person can be happy only when he listens to his inner voice, make decisions on its basis and act accordingly. (A society, village/city, region/state or a country can be happy only when majority of its population listen to their inner voice, make decisions on its basis and act accordingly)
- The inner voice of a person can neither be an obstacle to his inner and external growth nor lead him/her to wrong path.
- It is true that for fulfilling happy life, external well-being is necessary along with internal well-being.
- Now a days people are making decisions on the basis of convenience in place of conscience resulting in to stress and tension both in the society and individuals. It is also affecting the physical growth adversely. We believe that man may become capable of taking decisions on the basis of inner listening by practice and understanding of it and when it becomes the habit of majority of people in a society, positive change is inevitable.
- Internal well-being does not stop or hinder physical and external development, but helps remove obstacles of physical development and enhances it.
On the basis of above 5 concepts it is resolved to implement Mangal Gram Project with the active, moral and financial support of people desiring holistic development of the society.
To implement Mangal Gram project two groups will be formed
Group 1
In group1, 5 to 10 young or middle aged energetic people of the village will be selected who
- Have positive thinking
- Are Creative
- Are acceptable to villagers
The responsibility of this group is that its members first will bring positive change in themselves by practising “Self-Observation (inner listening). For this, the group member will be given training on Self-Observation. The training will be given by energetic trained resource persons.
After the training the group members will themselves practice Self Observation and try to inculcate following attributes
- G - Gratitude
- R - Relationship
- E - Emotion
- A - Awareness
- A - Awareness
- T - Trust
- F - Forgiveness
- R - Resilience
- A - Acceptance
- M - Meaning (purpose)
- E - Exercising/ Health
- G - Giving
- E - Empathy
- L - Learning listening and love
When they absorbs above attributes they will transmit them to the villagers with the help of Self-observation. We will try that all people’s representatives and government employees also make self-observation in Mangal gram.
When we see positive change in the village we will activate second group.
Group 2
This group will be in the chairmanship of the Village Sarpanch. We will associate interns from good institutions to work with the group. We will request district administration to direct all village level employees to be members of the group.
The group will be responsible for following:-
Assessment of resources
The group will make assessment of resources in the village as following:-
- Funds being allotted under various schemes of the state and centre government
- Resource available in the village
- Skills and capacity of the villagers
- Group will also assess needs and aspirations of the villagers
Planning
Make a village development plan with consent of villagers; keeping in view the need and aspirations of the villagers within available resources. The plan will include both infrastructure and employment Group will also identify actions to improve physical, social and economic environment of village.
The plan prepared by group will be discussed in detail by the villagers and will be approved by the Gramsabha
Audit
Group will help villagers to make social audit of development activities.
